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Sidney Francis and his daughter, Candice Francis, reflect on his time as one of the first Black Marines to serve at Montford Point during World War...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
Uncover the layers of sacrifice, courage, and unity at the heart of America's story through the historic battlefield of Gettysburg and the inspirin...
- Added: Feb 25, 2024
- Length: 10:28
Love triumphs, even through the Civil War, and the story of a union within the Union - the profound love of Ulysses and Julia Grant
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 15:10
There are historians within us all. The first-hand accounts in "Untold: Stories of a World War II Liberator" - written by Deborah Levine and direc...
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 58:50
Veteran Ken Porwoll’s story recounts his inhumane treatment & riveting story of survival as one of 10,000 American & roughly 50,000 Filipino soldie...
Bought by KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis, WRKF, WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 57:32
- Purchases: 17
This classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR commemorates Veterans Day with Vietnam veterans and poets, Bill Bauer and H.C. Palmer. Recorded in front audien...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WNJR, KVSC, and XRAY.fm
- Added: Nov 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Topic 1: The Model Turned Spy Turned Countess; Topic 2: Sending Scientists into the Sky
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RADIOLEX
- Added: Aug 02, 2021
- Length: 51:48
- Purchases: 2
This week on On Story we’ll hear from Bill Hader and Alec Berg, the creators of HBO’s hit crime show, Barry. And later we’ll hear from the filmmake...
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 54:00
In the first chapter of this two-part story, we embark on a journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically, to one battle that unfolded ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 52:51
Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Virginia Brackett, the author of 15 books, discusses her 2019 family memoir, IN THE COMPANY OF PATRIOTS. She reveals how she used family stories, s...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Dec 31, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 35:44
This audio was recorded in 2008 when I asked my uncle Mike Alexander to talk about his service as a bombardier in World War II. Mike was a proud Je...
- Added: Dec 27, 2014
- Length: 13:10
Severely wounded in the "First Iraq War," author Robert C. Vallieres bravely reads from his eloquent book, Wounded Warriors: A Soldier's Story of H...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 01:40
We mark the centennial of the start of World War I with the acclaimed author of 29 books, including the well-known SCHINDLER'S LIST (originally SCH...
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks with author Shizue Seigel about her book In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internm...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
Memorial Day can be tough for veterans - especially those who've served in combat. For some, the tributes and ceremonies exacerbate their struggle ...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 2
Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 04:00
During this program, Betsy Mulligan-Dague, executive director of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center in Missoula, Montana, and Dan Gallagher, Vietnam...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WITF, WLPR , KBRP Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 5
Grand Rapids resident Matthew Miltich tells the story of his grandfather Andró Miletic and his reluctant journey from seaside Croatia to the Iron R...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2010
- Length: 16:42
- Purchases: 1
Barry Babcock talks about the Dakota war of 1862, a tragic event for all sides.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 15:02
- Purchases: 2
Breves cápsulas testimoniadas de los hechos macabros sucedidos en el Calabozo, San Vicente. El Salvador.
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 20:39
Short documentary collage of voices recorded in St. Louis during World War II on a Wilcox-Gay Recordio. The Greatest Generation carries on, as reme...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 18, 2009
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The state of Colombia's renewed Justice system.
- Added: Mar 12, 2009
- Length: 55:00
